Here once on a warm night Holly had appeared in her 'nighty,' having had a bad dream, to have the clutch of it released.
The whole matter appeared so painful to them I covered up the offending "nighty" with my dressing-gown, and coughed.
A faint fragrance of roses haunted the mysterious "nighty," filled the room, and mingled with Angela's dreams.
And she took her little handkerchief out of the pocket of her nighty and began to wipe her eyes with it.
I got to thinking of accidents, and I thought how disagreeable it would be to turn out into the snow in my nighty.
His Lordship had no time to slam the windows up, before the coach lay wallowing in a bog of nighty blackness.
He looked narrowly into the frank, engaging eyes of the boy in the nighty.
You was so late we all got a kinder worried, and Mamie come right down in her nighty, just before you come in.
And Arabella ran upstairs and got her nighty and her little flannel gown.
And Araminta ran upstairs and got her nighty and her little flannel gown.
1871, short for nightgown; originally a children's word.
noun
A nightgown: Aphrodite in her nightie, Oh my God what a sightie (1894+)
